This is second hand, but still funny as hell.

So, I modded a sub. Nothing big, less than 500k users. Decided to go hard after the initial blackout protest and set the sub to restricted, and approved anyone willing to throw in a “fuck spez”. I was planning to bring on new mods and get them set up in the last week before the 1st. So, I get the two best candidates in, and let them know that the sub would be crazy, so just hang back and watch.

Wellll, I did warn them about it, including the part where I said I had mentioned to some offline friends that the sub was a free target. These guys have nothing but time, and zero qualms about posting things to justify being set to nsfw.

We’re talking herpes infected assholes being posted as portraits of spez, piles of feces done that way, etc.

Well, one of the new mods didn’t quite understand what I meant and not only removed the posts, but banned one of the guys. Now, this guy had a regular account and a porn account. So, he’s posting from both.

Now, I undid the ban within minutes. But his main account gets a suspension for ban evasion, and his porn account gets a permanent ban for the same.

He sends a little “fuck you” message as the appeal, just to walk away with spite. But, despite the fact that his account wasn’t even banned at the time, they denied the appeal.

It was pretty hilarious to him, and me. I wish he’d screen shotted the messages and posts though.

For a few days there, the entire group of folks were posting some brutal shit. They all ended up getting “this was removed by mods” bullshit message, but they’d message me and I’d approve the posts anyway. Reddit still removed half of those, and one account got banned for harassment of spez.

It was the way reddit and their fake accounts acted during all that, that made me change my mind about the sub. It’s set private, and won’t change until they force it back open, because fuck them. The automod is set where almost everything just posts a mini rant about spez.

The sub is essentially dead now. It’ll never come back the way it was. Which sucks, because it was a fucking great sub. But with reddit being shit now, it’s better off dead than fumbling along as a zombie version of itself

I have created a community and it was burned without any reason. I have several accounts because it has been banned for just reposting posts from my previous (deleted) accounts.

And in general, Reddit communities are very restricted, you can’t freely speak what you want, and moderators start deleting your posts. But your posts may be not harassment but just be incompatible with public opinion there. If you start writing something that explains collective opinion about something is wrong you will be harassed and your post deleted.

That’s my humble impression of Reddit.